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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 6</span><span class="fp-text">LA MOUCHE ET LA MULE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula VI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">MUSCA ET MULA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une Mouche se posa sur un timon, et gourmandant la Mule&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Paresseuse, lui dit-elle, ne peux-tu aller plus vite&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">marche, ou je te perce le cou avec mon dard.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La Mule lui répondit&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Je ne m'émeus point de tes paroles ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais je crains l'homme assis sur le siège de devant,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et qui, armé d'un fouet flexible, me gouverne sous le joug</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et retient par le frein ma bouche écumante.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Laisse donc là ta frivole arrogance ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car je sais quand il faut m'arrêter, et quand je dois courir.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Musca in <span class="fp-correction" title="timone  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">temone</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="temone  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">timone</span></span> sedit et mulam increpans&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Quam tarda es&nbsp;! inquit, et non vis citius progredi&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Vide ne <span class="fp-correction" title="dolose  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">dolone</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="dolone  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">dolose</span></span> collum conpungam tibi.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Respondit illa&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Verbis non moveor tuis ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed istum timeo sella qui prima sedens</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">jugum flagello temperat lento meum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et <span class="fp-correction" title="lora  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">os</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="os  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">lora</span></span> frenis continet spumantibus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quapropter aufer frivolam insolentiam ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nam ubi <span class="fp-correction" title="tricandum  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">strigandum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="strigandum  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">tricandum</span></span> et ubi currendum est scio.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette fable peut servir à tourner en ridicule</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ceux qui prodiguent d'impuissantes menaces.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hac derideri fabula merito potest</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui sine virtute vanas exercet minas.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/esope-et-limpudent.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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